OT: Big Daddy Amin Dead at 80

[TerranC]

Originally posted by General Woundwort:
Not a world war? There are Muslim vs. non-Muslim conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa (Nigeria, the Sudan, Somalia, amongst others). There is a decades-old Muslim insurgency in the Philippines. The troubles in Indonesia are well-known. Arab terrorist Groups use South America (especially Trinidad and the tri-border region around Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay) as a fund-raising and laundering base - perhaps other things too. Muslim terrorists have established themselves and struck in both Europe and North America. Muslim-Hindu conflicts are one of the defining features of the tension between India and Pakistan.

And you say it isn't a global conflict?

It's a global conflict. It's not a global war. You say as if all those events are the works of one organization (In your case, the militant islam culture), while it isn't.

All those events you mentioned are the works of different Groups, all with different agendas.

And in order to have a war, you need to have 2 unified sides. In order to have a global war, you need to have 2 worldwide unified sides. Militant Islam culture isn't at all unified. Arabs and Kurds kill each other at a moments notice. Before the war in afghanistan, It was the arabs of the Taliban against the Arabs of the Northern alliance. Even now, the 3 main organizations that are causing all the hubbub in Israel aren't even on friendly terms with each other!

This is no Global war, comprising the "coaltion of the willing" and militant islam. What we are in right now is a flurry of militant activities, that have a common theme; violent action against the governments that "oppress" them and it's supporters, where the biggest supporter of those governments just happens to be the United States.

Edit:

Second, the U.S. should continue to target regimes that sponsor terrorism. Iraq is the obvious candidate, having not only helped al Qaeda, but attacked Americans directly (including an assassination attempt against the first President Bush) and developed weapons of mass destruction. Again, American allies will flinch, and the military may shake its head at the prospect of revisiting the aborted Gulf War victory, but the costs of failing to do so, and the opportunities for success, make it good sense.

That is the stupidest statement I've ever heard; That criteria includes Israel, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Libya, among others; Israel, being america's ally, can't be touched, Attacking North Korea is suicide without China's approval, Attacking Libya will only anger arabs more, and attacking Saudi Arabia will do nothing more than push the world into WW3.

[ August 18, 2003, 04:26: Message edited by: TerranC ]